Sitecom Media Player 2TB MD-272 review

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The Media Player GUI

 

SiteCom Home Living MediaPlayer

Once you hook up the WiFi dongle you can configure it here for wireless access as well. This is an optional dongle though, it was not included in this kit. However for 1080P content we strongly recommend you to use wired LAN anyway as it eats away heaps of bandwidth, up-to say 40 Mbit sec.

SiteCom Home Living MediaPlayer

So we use the good old-fashioned Ethernet jack. You can assign an IP, but like 99% of you have it, it will pick up the DHCP lease from your router and the unit as such configures itself once you power it up.

Everything in the TV Media Player 2TB MD-272 has been thought through well, to make the end-user experience as easy and pleasant as can be.

SiteCom Home Living MediaPlayer

Of course all important data can be read out easily, upgrading from an old to the new firmware is as easy as copying the Firmware IMG file in the root of a USB stick, starting up the HDD TV Media Player 2TB MD-272, going to the upgrade function and following the instructions. Both our units upgraded to the new GUI firmware without any issues.

Movie or content playback quality is downright good, we threw MP4, x.264, h.264, MOV and WMV files at the HDD TV Media Player 2TB MD-272. It takes all formats without any issues whatsoever.

SiteCom Home Living MediaPlayer

The new firmware has been calibrated to really nice dark levels and just the right contrast, gamma and color levels. You can tweak a little on your HDTV to fine-tune things, but the default setup is very impressive.

You can place your content on the local HDD, stream over the net by accessing a PC or NAS (even with username/password) unit or if you have set that up, easily access a UPNP storage cluster. Click, point and play ...

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